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NBachers

(18,195 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 09:37 PM Sep 2024

Greg Kihn died - Same age as me

Greg Kihn just died - Same age as me - And here I am, still getting up early every morning and trudging off to work. My usual aches and pains this morning made me ask, "Maybe I'm gettin' a little too old for this gig." But then as the day wore on and my body shook it off and got into the rhythm of mind & body movement, I said to myself, "Oh yeah, this is why I do it- I shake off the jiggers and my day gets good." People seek me out for what I know and a woman today God Blessed Me and told me I'm wonderful for how I treated her. I get paid for this.

My favorite Greg Kihn song is The Breakup Song and I've got it on rotation in my listening app; but I'm putting up Jeopardy because it's so quintessentially 80's. I can imagine it playing on Miami Vice as Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs cruise down the wet streets of night time Biscayne Boulevard.

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Shellback Squid

(9,123 posts)
1. RIP Greg, When I was in the Navy I was a photographer, saw I him in SF at a park doing a concert, he allowed my close
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 09:46 PM
Sep 2024

ups, intermingled with the band while they were playing, this was the 80's and he was in his prime

ultralite001

(1,182 posts)
2. Wow... Sorry to learn of Greg Kihn's passing...
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 11:24 PM
Sep 2024

Another brick in the walls of my life comes tumbling down...

Music keeps it glued together still...

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
3. What's awful is when they start getting younger than you are
Thu Sep 26, 2024, 12:05 AM
Sep 26

and you vaguely wish you could have given them a few years of your time to do what they did best.

groundloop

(12,385 posts)
4. Damn, that's too bad. I saw him in Atlanta in the early 80s (heck if I can remember the exact year)
Thu Sep 26, 2024, 12:46 AM
Sep 26

I haven't heard any of his music in quite awhile, I'll have to fix that.

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